Data Center Registry
Deep Green Lansing Data Center
Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan
Deep Green Lansing Data Center is a cancelled data center in Lansing, Michigan (Ingham County), operated by Deep Green. The public record puts it at 24 MW planned, 2.5 acres, a reported $120 million investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.
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Facility record
Cancelled
- Operator
- Deep Green
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Cedar Street and Larch Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI
- Coordinates
- 42.7478, -84.5446 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 24 MW planned
- Land
- 2.5 acres
- Investment
- $120 million
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Power source
- Other
- On site generation
- 16 MW
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Mixed reception
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- April 2026CancelledGander Newsroom's running Michigan data-center tracker records the application as withdrawn in April 2026, after the March planning-commission recommendation. Source: Gander Newsroom
- March 2026ProposedPlanning commission voted 5-2 to recommend rezoning, reversing its December 2025 rejection. Source: Lansing State Journal (via Yahoo News)
Opposition and litigation at this site
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Deep Green Lansing Data Center in Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan appear in the record, with no clear majority position. The Lansing Planning Commission rejected the rezoning request in December 2025 and then voted 5-2 on 2026-03-03 to recommend that the city council rezone the land.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.
The Lansing Planning Commission rejected the rezoning request in December 2025 and then voted 5-2 on 2026-03-03 to recommend that the city council rezone the land. The source records the split votes and the earlier rejection but does not attribute a stated reason to the opposing votes, so 'mixed' rather than 'contested'.
Power and water
Source describes a 16-megawatt fuel cell plant paired with the data center. The fuel feedstock is not stated in the source, so energy.source is recorded as 'other' rather than assuming natural gas.
Project representative states a closed-loop cooling system using 500,000 gallons of water a year. That is an annual figure, not a daily one, so reportedMgd is omitted rather than converted (0.5 million gallons per YEAR is not 0.5 MGD).
Notes on the record
Downtown Lansing infill project on a 2.5-acre city parking lot at Cedar and Larch Street, developed by U.K.-based Deep Green. STATUS CONFLICT, resolved in favour of the later source: the Lansing State Journal source (2026-03) shows the planning commission recommending rezoning, but Gander Newsroom's continuously-updated Michigan tracker (retrieved 2026-09-09) lists the application as WITHDRAWN in April 2026, so status is recorded as 'cancelled'. A withdrawn application is not necessarily permanent abandonment and this should be re-checked before publishing. On the March position: as of the source, the planning commission had only RECOMMENDED rezoning to the city council; no council rezoning or site-plan approval is recorded. The buy-sell agreement gives the city a right to buy the land back if the project does not proceed within two years. No investment figure, job counts, or incentive agreement is stated in the source. Coordinates are the US Census geocoder's match for the Cedar St / N Larch St intersection named in the source; the parcel itself is not confirmed. Investment of $120 million and the 24 MW figure are both from the Gander tracker; the 24 MW also appears in the Lansing State Journal source.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Mason / Vevay Township Data Center (unnamed developer) · Mason · Undisclosed developer (represented by Dykema Gossett PLLC)12 mi · Proposed · Contested
- Grand River Power Company Smithville Bitcoin Mine · Eaton Rapids · Grand River Power Company18 mi · Operating · Contested
- Howell Township Hyperscale Data Center · Howell · Stantec Consulting Michigan / Randee LLC29 mi · Cancelled · Opposed
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Deep Green Lansing Data Center in Lansing?
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Deep Green Lansing Data Center in Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan appear in the record, with no clear majority position. The Lansing Planning Commission rejected the rezoning request in December 2025 and then voted 5-2 on 2026-03-03 to recommend that the city council rezone the land.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Deep Green Lansing Data Center?
No lawsuit over Deep Green Lansing Data Center appears in the record we track as of September 9, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Deep Green Lansing Data Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Deep Green Lansing Data Center is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Deep Green Lansing Data Center, and how big is it?
Deep Green is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 24 MW. The site is recorded at 2.5 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Deep Green Lansing Data Center," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/deep-green-lansing-mi.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/deep-green-lansing-mi, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Lansing city planning commission recommends rezoning for downtown data center · Lansing State Journal (via Yahoo News) · retrieved September 9, 2026
- 2.How many AI data centers are planned in Michigan? We counted. · Gander Newsroom · retrieved September 9, 2026
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